Shoe



Jan. 8, 1935. B. BATTERMAN 1,987,279

SHOE

Filed June 21, 1935 IN ENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 8, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHOE Application June 21, 1933, Serial No. 676,828

2 Claims.

The object of the present invention is to provide a womans opera pump with a throat of novel construction which will combine comfort with means for preventing a bulge or overhanging of the flesh of the foot immediately above the throat, which will be conformed with the base of the instep rather than crease the instep as does the throat of the usual opera pump and which will eliminate the necessity for elastic Webbing or elastic cord shirred leather at the throat which has been proposed in a form of scalloped throat opera pump.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the shoe embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the vamp portion of the shoe.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the vamp portion of the shoe.

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic elevation of the front portion of the shoe showing in dotted lines the form of a usual type of opera pump throat.

Fig. 5 is a diagrannnatic plan View of the im- 25 proved throat structure showing in dotted lines the usual form of opera pump throat.

Referring to the drawing, 1 shows an opera type womans pump, the dotted lines a. in Figs. 4 and 5 illustrating the usual formation of the 30 throat which extends forwardly from the piping 2 in a curvature from each side of the open top of the shoe. In such usual form of the throat, the curved front edge of the shoe opening, constituting the throat, comes into contact with the instep and tends to cut into the flesh of the instep, which is not only uncomfortable, but forms an unsightly bulge of the instep over the piping of the throat.

Referring to Figs. 4 and 5, comparison of the usual form of throat construction and that of the present invention can be made. In the present invention, each side edge of the shoe opening, normally covered by the piping 2 merges at the front of the shoe into an upwardly extending flexible lip 3 and each lip merges into a transversely and upwardly extending flexible lip 4, all of the said lips rising above the normal throat lines.

I preferably confine the piping to that portion 50 of the upper edge of the shoe rearwardly of the throat and continue the lining at the heel and counter portion of the shoe to a point under and forwardly of the throat so as to reinforce the lips 3 and 4 while leaving them sufficiently yielding to the foot as to provide a throat which closely from the standpoint of appearance, which is unsightly, but because the rear reinforcement projects the lip or lips outwardly from the foot and provides a thickened area at a point where the throat should closely contact with the instep to provide a well-fitting shoe with the outer curvatures of the throat properly merging into the arch of the instep.

It will be noted that in my invention, the lips 3 and 4 preferably rise above the normal line of the throat and the upper piped edge of the shoe opening and instead of affording a weakness to the throat, the lips act as yielding supplementary members.

It is also to be noted that I prefer that the vamp be modified by increasing the degree of curvature of the vamp immediately in advance of the central lip 4, as will be shown by comparison of the full lines, Fig. 4, with the dotted lines, the latter indicating the shape of the vamp and throat of the usual opera pump.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:--

l. A shoe of the opera pump type having a foot opening bounded by a heel edge, opposed side edges and a throat, the throat comprising a relatively large segmental lip extending transversely of said side edges and at the front of the throat, and two opposed relatively small lips, one in segmental upward extension at each side of the throat and merging into the large lip, the latter rising above the said opposed lips, the base of said transversely extending lip and the front end of each side edge being substantially in the same horizontal plane.

2. A womans shoe of the opera pump type constructed in accordance with claim 1 in which the vamp forwardly of the throat is formed with a sharp upward curvature continuing to the upper edge of the transversely extending lip.

BENJAMIN BATTERMAN. 

